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EQT, a major international investment firm, has acquired SUSE from Micro Focus for US$2.535 billion. SUSE, which is based in Nuremberg, Germany, is a leading provider of enterprise-grade, open source Linux solutions. The company was founded in 1992. It was acquired by Novell in 2003. Subsequently, Novell was acquired by The Attachmate Group, which later […]
Carly Stoughton, Head of Technical Marketing at Apstra, illustrates how Apstra AOS handles the entire data center network lifecycle, including Day 2 operations.
Dell Technologies will return to the public equity market by offering a new class of publicly listed common stock in exchange for existing Dell Technologies Class V tracking stock. The Class V stockholders will have the option to elect $109 in cash consideration per Class V share, up to $9 billion in aggregate, which represents […]
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has approved the Marvell’s previously announced merger transaction with Cavium. Marvell currently expects the merger to close in July 2018. Marvell to acquire Cavium for $6 billion Monday, November 20, 2017 Cavium, Marvell No Comments Marvell Technology Group Ltd., which is a leading supplier of HDD and SSD storage controllers along with […]
A10 Networks completed its previously announced investigation into certain past accounting practices. In a public statement, A10 Networks said the investigation uncovered errors in its financial statements relating to the recognition of revenue in a limited number of sale transactions between the company and its resellers, but that these errors do not have an impact […]
Australia’s nbn broadband access network initiative surpasses the four million connection milestone — representing the halfway mark of the previously stated goal of connecting eight million homes and businesses by 2020. This compares with approximately 2.4 million connections a year ago. “With our aim to help bridge the digital divide and see that Australians, regardless […]
Juniper introduced a common architecture for campus and data center fabrics based on its EVPN-VXLAN fabric. The idea is to create an enterprise-wide fabric with simple, secure and automated multi-cloud capabilities. The company says the EVPN-VXLAN protocol is ideal for campus architectures because it provides layer-3 transport with layer-2 capabilities that allow enterprises to evolve […]
NTT Com is preparing to launch a global Enterprise Cloud (ECL) service powered by VMware Cloud Foundation. The service will deliver advanced hybrid cloud environments consisting of VMware’s full software-defined data center stack, and enable a frictionless path to the hybrid cloud through the inclusion of VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension. NTT Com will also become […]
Reliance Industries Limited agreed to acquire Radisys Corporation for US$1.72 per share in cash — representing an enterprise value of about $67 million based on 39 million shares outstanding. Radisys, which is based in Hillsboro, Oregon, has nearly 600 employees with an engineering team based out of Bangalore, India, and sales and support offices globally. […]
Formula One Group (Formula 1) is moving the vast majority of its infrastructure from on-premises data centers to AWS, and standardizing on AWS’s machine learning and data analytics services. AWS is working with Formula 1 to enhance its race strategies, data tracking systems, and digital broadcasts through a range of AWS services. These include Amazon […]
Veridium, a start-up based in Quincy, Mass., announced $16.5 million in Series B funding for its biometric authentication solutions. Veridium offers a software-only biometrics platform that enables users to replace passwords, tokens, OTPs or swipe cards with multiple biometrics from their smartphone. The solutions include native device sensors such as face and fingerprint, and Veridium’s […]
C Spire has acquired TekLinks, a cloud, managed and professional services provider based ub Birmingham, Alabama. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 2001, TekLinks has primary operations in three states – Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Many of its eight offices operate in fast growth markets in the Southeast U.S., including Birmingham, Huntsville, and Nashville. […]
On Friday, 30-June-2018 Comcast suffered a major outage impacting users across the United States. The disruption appeared to last 4-5 hours. There was no word on how many of Comcast’s 26 million broadband customers were affected. In a statement, Comcast said: “We identified 2 unrelated fiber cuts to our network backbone providers. Our engineers are […]
